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What Does 86 Mean? Definition, History and More

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At some point when you were dining in a restaurant, you may have heard the BOH staff shout “86” and the name of a menu item to the waiters. Or, if you've worked in a restaurant as a chef, line cook, or as part of the FOH (front-of-house), you may have used this hospitality term yourself. Table of Contents. What does 86 mean?

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Employee Engagement Best Practices for Restaurants

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What is the key to success in the restaurant industry? While a delicious menu and an inviting ambiance are critical components of a restaurant’s success, staff are the lifeblood of a restaurant. The people you hire to run your restaurant can make or break the business. Why Care About Employee Engagement? First things first: what is it?

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Restaurant Tip Outs Guide: Methods, Tip Splitting, Pooling, and More

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A tip out ensures other employees working in the front of the house share in gratuities, such as: Barbacks. It could also incentivize other FOH employees like bartenders and bussers to work faster and alongside highly-tipped servers in hopes of earning a portion of their gratuities. Table of Contents. What is a Tip Out? Bartenders.

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Competition’s Coming: Key Technology Changes Can Help You Win

Modern Restaurant Management

By improving customer loyalty and increasing revenue through the smart use of technology from the public-facing part of the business all the way to the back-of-house prep, sourcing, and staffing. In the near future, we’ll look at printed menus the way we look back at newspapers today. Archaic and revenue draining.

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Food, Hospitality & Wellness ‘Places’ Transcending the Resources & Mining Village Work-Life Experience

Future Food

Source: www.food-management.com. Source: Future Food. Food, Hospitality & Wellness ‘Places’ Transcending the Resources & Mining Village Work-Life Experience. Health and safety are paramount in mining and resources sector but as with society in general, personnel ‘wellness’ has not always been at the forefront of consideration.

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Chefs Dish on ‘The Bear’

Modern Restaurant Management

These clams are incredibly rare and we were sourcing them from a local farmer in Florida. Back in the early 2000’s I worked at a restaurant where the head chef smoked through service. This perfectly demonstrates how the industry operated back then. You never know what can happen when working in a restaurant kitchen.

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Restaurant Cyber Security: How To Prevent Data Breaches

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Given the nature of how restaurants operate —with complex systems in the FOH and BOH —ensuring that receive orders, collect payment, and pay teams—here are numerous areas of the business that could be breached. If you're like most restaurateurs it's things like theft (both time and material), lawsuits, spoilage, or staff turnover.

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